Although fecundity has been studied for decades, the heterogeneity among couples, both biologically and behaviorally, is not well understood. The length of the woman's menstrual cycle has been shown to play an important ...

In this thesis, we investigate how to perform inference in settings in which the data consist of different modalities or views. For effective learning utilizing the information available, data fusion that considers all ...

Kabuki syndrome (KS) is a rare intellectual disability syndrome caused by mutations in two genes (KMT2D and KDM6A) both involved in promoting open chromatin. If an imbalance between open and closed chromatin states is ...

We record work done by the author on the Kakeya-Nikodym problems, and we also record the joint work done by the author and Cheng Zhang on improved geodesic restriction estimates for eigenfunctions on compact Riemannian ...

Survival for dialysis patients is dismal. They have an adjusted mortality rate 6.5-7.9 times higher than the general population. Kidney transplant (KT) recipients enjoy significant survival and quality of life advantages ...

Electrodeposition plays a key role in current industry by providing metallic coatings and nanoscale materials for electronic, optical, magnetic, wear, corrosion, and even aesthetic applications. Current manufacturing ...

Muddy deposits make up a large region of the world's coastal lands such as the Gulf of Mexico, the Louisiana coastline, and the Persian Gulf. These regions serve as valuable resources for the world's population for commerce, ...

Large eddy simulation (LES) is used to investigate the behavior of turbine wakes in very large wind farms for which the wakes merge and the flow becomes fully developed. To do this, horizontally-periodic boundary conditions ...

The actuator line model (ALM)
is a widely used tool
to represent the wind turbine blades
when performing
numerical
simulations of
flow over wind turbines and wind farms.
The ALM is used to represent wind turbine
blades ...

Massive Data bring new opportunities and challenges to data scientists and statisticians. On one hand, Massive Data hold great promises for discovering subtle population patterns and heterogeneities that are not possible ...

My dissertation analyzes the Las Batuecas/Las Hurdes region’s unique function in Spanish culture from the turn of the 17th century to the present day. Due to its geographical isolation, Las Batuecas/Las Hurdes was once ...

The Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has been widely used because it is well-suited to model flow and transport in the complex geometries that are typical for subsurface porous media. Bacterial chemotaxis enables motile ...

The recognition of actions and activities has a long history in the computer vision community. State-of-the-art approaches are based on analysis of the distribution of low-level feature descriptors such as space-time ...

Motor adaptation is a trial and error process that allows us to adjust our movements in response to changes in our environment and our body. It is thought that this process recalibrates a forward model (potentially housed ...

The period between 1860 and 1920 saw the development of mining engineering
as a profession, with journals, societies, and university programs. At the same time,
mining engineers, as a group, gradually assumed more control ...

Letter identification imposes numerous challenges on the brain's visual system. Identification processes must be flexible enough to recognize that ear and Ear refer to the same word while being precise enough to recognize ...

This dissertation studies liberation theology and its dialogical interaction with Latin America’s testimonio and new historical novel from a cultural studies approach that pays special attention to the key issue of ...

Background: As women of reproductive age, female sex workers (FSWs) have reproductive health needs, fertility intentions, and families. However, given FSWs’ work environments and the societal stigma against them, there are ...

African-Americans experience higher incidences of death and disability compared to non-Hispanic whites. Much of the existing research has focused on identifying the existence of health disparities, as methodological issues ...